I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.
ROSE KENNEDYI tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
More Rose Kennedy Quotes
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I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.
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There’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
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My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.
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I don’t think you’re much good, unless you’re doing good to someone.
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I am not going to be licked by tragedy, as life is a challenge, and we must carry on and work for the living as well as mourn for the dead.
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The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.
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It’s our money, and we’re free to spend it any way we please.
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Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night’s sleep, and you can’t settle anything until morning anyway.
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Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t we?
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I will never forgive Joe for that awful operation he had performed on Rosemary. It is the only thing I have ever felt bitter toward him about.
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My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.
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I’ve had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.
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Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.
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Money is never to be squandered or spent ostentatiously. Some of the greatest people in history have lived lives of the greatest simplicity.
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Prosperity tries the fortunate; adversity the great.
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My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
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If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, it’s just possible you haven’t grasped the situation.
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My greatest regret is not having gone to Wellesley College. it is something I have felt a little sad about my whole life.
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I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
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I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.
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No one will ever feel sorry for me.
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To my mind, there was no one in the world like my father. Wherever he was, there was magic in the air.
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In the middle of a world that had always been a bit mad, the cat walks with confidence.
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I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts – spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back – length of life.
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Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn’t understand either men or percentages.
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I’m like old wine. They don’t bring me out very often – but I’m well preserved.
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